Lawrence Canyon 5 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 4297, V68147

Where: San Diego County, California (33.2° N, 117.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 114.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Mateo Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• The San Luis Rey River Local Fauna of the San Mateo Formation is correlative with the early Hemphillian and possibly latest Clarendonian North American Land Mammal Age (Domning and Deméré 1984), and late Tortonian (Europe/Asia), approximately 7–9 Ma.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone

• estuarine to fluvial

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the LACM, UCMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes, H. Howard, J. H. Hutchison and B. J. Welton. 1981. The vertebrate fossils of the marine Cenozoic San Mateo Formation at Oceanside, California. Geologic Investigations of the Coastal Plain 53-70 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50069: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.05.2005, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• San Luis Rey River Local Fauna
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes -
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
"Isurus oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus, "Carcharodon sulcidens" = Carcharodon carcharias, "Isurus cf. hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
"Isurus oxyrhynchus" = Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810 mackerel shark
"Carcharodon sulcidens" = Carcharodon carcharias Linnaeus 1758 great white shark
"Isurus cf. hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equini indet.1 Quinn 1955 horse
possibly Dinohippus
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelinae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet.2 Gray 1864 rorqual
 Cetacea - Cetotheriidae
Nannocetus sp. Kellogg 1929 whale
 Carnivora - Otariidae
Otariinae indet. Gray 1825 eared seal
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobeninae indet. Allen 1880 walrus
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Hydrodamalis cuestae Domning 1978 Cuesta sea cow
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Uria sp. Brisson 1760 auk
Uria paleohesperis n. sp.3 Howard 1982 auk
? Aethia sp.3 Merrem 1788 auklet
Aethia barnesi n. sp.4 Smith 2014 auklet
"Praemancalla cf. wetmorei" = Miomancalla wetmorei3 Howard 1976 auk
Praemancalla sp. Howard 1966 auk
Cepphus sp. Moehring 1758 auk
Cepphus olsoni n. sp.3 Howard 1982 auk
 Falconiformes - Falconidae
? Falconidae indet. Vigors 1824 raptor
 Neornithes -
 Procellariiformes - Diomedeidae
Diomedea sp. Linnaeus 1758 albatross
 Gaviiformes - Gaviidae
Gavia sp. Forster 1788 loon
Actinopteri
 Salmoniformes - Salmonidae
"Smilodonichthys rastrosus" = Oncorhynchus rastrosus
"Smilodonichthys rastrosus" = Oncorhynchus rastrosus Cavender and Miller 1972 Pacific salmon
 Labriformes - Labridae
"cf. Pimelometopon sp." = Semicossyphus
"cf. Pimelometopon sp." = Semicossyphus Günther 1861 sheepshead
 Istiophoriformes - Istiophoridae